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Taking Flight
- Author
- Michaela DePrince
- Narrator
- Allyson Johnson
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 13 October 2015
- Run Time
- 5 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Dance, ballet, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing
What to expect
At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and now dances for the Dutch National Ballet.
In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet's most exciting rising stars.
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Details
- Author
- Michaela DePrince
- Narrator
- Allyson Johnson
- Duration
- 5 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 October 2015
- ISBN
- 9781494588229
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Dance, ballet, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing
Synopsis
Michaela DePrince was known as girl no. 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and now dances for the Dutch National Ballet. In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet's most exciting rising stars.
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